Octavo, with 48 plates and two colour maps, original green cloth with attractive gilt blocked kangaroo motif.An excellent copy of this generously illustrated survey of Australia's agriculture and natural resources by the long-serving secretary of the Swedish Society...

Chart, engraved; 620 x 930 mm.Mid eighteenth century world map showing magnetic variation through the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. This map represents decades of work by several enlightenment luminaries. The scientific study of magnetic variation was.....

Tall quarto, with five folding maps and plans (some colour), oirginal green cloth with gilt lettering.Detailed report and travel itinerary of the government geological expedition to the Kimberley and remote north in 1905.Unexpected additions include notes on fossils collected...

London: Harris, 1821. Octavo with a folding frontispice map, 84 hand-coloured engravings on 28 plates (three on each); original printed boards.Second edition of this children's study of Asian lands. Each engraving is numbered and complimented by a corresponding description. The pictures and text cover a number of Asian countries...

London: Alexander Hogg, circa 1780. Engraved chart, 185 x 355 mm, with decorative title cartouche in the upper right corner.An early map of the Society Islands in the South Pacific published by Alexander Hogg to illustrate the voyages and discoveries of the sea captains Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Cook...

Folio, 78 pp., with two large folding maps each measuring 720 x 1530 mm., recent black cloth.First published report of the Elder Scientific Expedition of 1891, complete with the two magnificent lithographic maps of the central desert on...

Octavo, frontispiece and five plates (including map of the Rivoli Bay district bound into the text); with a large handcoloured folding map measuring 684 x 535 mm. in front sleeve; a handsome copy with the advertisements in...

London: various publishers, 1840-, 1855. Thick octavo, a contemporary collection of thirteen rare pamphlets, seven on the subject of gold, with in total five folding maps, each with original title-pages (one with drop-title only), several with owner's signature, and one with authorial inscription; a handsome volume in contemporary half vellum...

Quarto, with ten folding engraved maps; later half red grained morocco.An analysis of the geographical knowledge of the ancient Greeks undertaken by Gossellin for a contest set by the French Academie Royale des Inscriptions. The ten folding maps are particularly interesting for.....

Amsterdam: 1607. Handcoloured copper engraving, 290 x 180 mm. (sheet size), with letterpress to verso. Mounted.Beautiful decorated double-hemisphere map of the world from the Atlas Minor published by Jodocus Hondius in 1607. In 1604 Hondius and a business partner purchased the copper plates from Mercator's estate and continued to...

HOTHAM, Lieutenant-Governor Sir Charles, and James TARLETON. [PARLIAMENT OF VICTORIA]

Melbourne: Government Printer, 7 March 1855.

'the prime movers were Scotchmen'

Foolscap folio, single leaf.Curious exchange between James Tarleton, U.S. Consul to Australia and Lieutenant Governor Sir Charles Hotham, laying the blame for the Eureka Stockade. Tarleton asserts in his first letter that 'the prime movers were Scotchmen' and...

Three volumes, quarto, folding plan and steel engraved illustrations throughout; in original gilt decorated cloth.Official catalogue of the 1862 International Exhibition, a spectacle of vast proportions promoting the products and manufacturing of Britain and her colonies...

Geographical card game, consisting of 48 cards measuring 105 x 70 mm, each illustrated with a small round engraving by Pierre-François Godard, together with a folded sheet with introduction and rules for the game, and a....

London: W. Clowes, 1826. Slim octavo, [iv], 64 pp., with three aquatints and an impressive folding map of the coastline of north and western Australia; in recent polished half calf.Scarce paper concerning the mineral specimens collected during the north Australian voyage of Philip Parker King, with three aquatints from...

Engraved chart; two conjoined sheets measuring 655 x 988 mm. in total.Sounding chart of the headwaters of the River Plate, with soundings of the approaches to Montevideo.The map was produced by the French navy and published.....

Four parts text bound in one volume, with epilogue and atlas volumes, the latter oblong folio; 18 plates (some folding) in the text volumes, 50 plates (see note) in the atlas volume, excellent impressions of all the...

Octavo, ff. [xii], 280, italic letter, woodcut printer's device on last leaf, with six woodcuts; contemporary vellum,This was the first popular pocket edition of Macrobius's influential text, printed by the Giunta family in Florence; such smaller format publications were a feature of publishing...

Octavo, numerous text illustrations; publisher's blind-stamped cloth.Published posthumously and as the melancholy Note records " Few readers of this volume, it is presumed, need to be informed that its lamented author spent a part of the last...